[Reader-list] unblog the web

[Monica Narula]

Quite true. I suggested blog as I thought it was technically easy to  
use...

Another place i would recommend is www.openmute.org where you can
> Get a yourname.omweb.org address for your website with 5MB space

Also, its a space that believes in opensource/free software solutions.
As they say, their mission is:
Mission
OpenMute is a web resource project aiming to support cultural  
practice in the information age. Through the provision of server  
space, tools, practical guidance and critical contextualisation, we  
seek to develop open and collaborative ways of working, and  
contribute to the kind of public knowledge architectures that will  
serve practitioners' needs over the long term.

In the light of this great place (part of the extended network that  
sarai is part of) another one seems unnecessary, even if made by  
Sarai, unless it can offer more... (which we are still thinking  
about). What we are about to start is planet.sarai.net where people  
can find others in the sarai community together...

best
M

Monica Narula
Raqs Media Collective
Sarai-CSDS
29 Rajpur Road
Delhi 110 054
www.raqsmediacollective.net
www.sarai.net


On 26-Apr-07, at 2:33 PM, fmadre at free.fr wrote:

> May I ask why you suggest a blog ?
> this ancient form is not specially well suited for posting pictures
> perhaps we could turn people to doing websites
> there are a number of providers that offer webspace for free, most of
> them with ads and some not. I suggest brinkster
> http://www.brinkster.com/
> I have researched ~20 of those for my next piece and brinkster is
> unobtrusive (which is not what I was looking for)
> also you could use live spaces or googlepages
> http://spaces.live.com/
> http://www.googlepages.com
> googlepages doesn't have ads, I think they assume eveybody is going to
> add theirs...
>
> if you are concerned with hotlinking there is tripod
> http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
> they have that really ugly system in place which replaces your
> hotlinked image with thei logo and a message, brrrr
>
> now if you want to have the full sponsored web experience you should
> go for fortunecity or geocities
> they produce really scary sites
>
> most of those will have aids to produce the html, most of them  
> fairly ok
> then you could learn html or just use some tool to do it and upload
> your files, it's very easy
>
> of course a top solution would be that sarai opens hosting for its
> researchers with photo albums, etc, but that is a political choice
> about location as well as property
>
> the web should be preserved in its diversity
> there are enough blogs already
>
> f.
>
>
>> Hi Madhura
>>
>> The problem with posting images on the list is that there is a very
>> high possibility of virus getting through the administering of the
>> list as well - we must dismiss at least 50 spam/virus messages a  
>> day...
>>
>> But i agree that those images should be seen
>>
>> Can i suggest that you start a blog? Places like blogspot make it   
>> very
>> easy and if you go to http://freetemplates.blogspot.com/ you can   
>> also
>> get a different template from the usual one.
>>
>> Once you have uploaded images on to that, members of the reader-list
>> could visit the blog and see the images.
>>
>> There are many on the list who keep blogspot blogs - i'm sure that
>> they can give more advice!
>>
>> best
>> M
>>
>> Monica Narula
>> Raqs Media Collective
>> Sarai-CSDS
>> 29 Rajpur Road
>> Delhi 110 054
>> www.raqsmediacollective.net
>> www.sarai.net
>>
>>
>
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